The Wormhoudt massacre was the mass murder of 81 British and French POWs by Waffen-SS soldiers from the 1st SS Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler during the Battle of France in May 1940.
Rebuilt barn (cowshed), Wormhoudt massacre site
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was a German general, politician and war criminal in the Schutzstaffel during the Nazi era.
Wormhoudt massacre
…prisoner of war camps in occupied Europe. The Waffen-SS division, Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler was under the overall command of Oberstgruppenführer Sepp Dietrich. It was alleged from post-war testimony that it was specifically soldiers of the 2nd Battalion under the command of then Hauptsturmführer Wilhelm Mohnke…
Hitler with Dietrich in Berlin during the 1936 Summer Olympics
Dietrich in Greece, April 1941
Dietrich during the Battle of the Bulge, January 1945